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NEWNAN, Ga. — Black community leaders are calling on officials in a city south of Atlanta to preserve a cemetery for African Americans that they say has long been neglected and is under threat from a city skate park. Crews building the adjacent park in Newnan have dumped debris on the burial site, desecrating an [...]
MINDEN, Nev. (AP) — A red siren perched atop a small town's volunteer fire department sounds every night at 6 p.m., sending a piercing noise echoing through the ranches and towns of northern Nevada's Carson Valley including Dresslerville — a community governed by the Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California. To Serrell Smokey, the tribe's [...]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A popular strip club that once beckoned customers off a busy highway leading into Anchorage is now a church offering salvation — instead of temptation — thanks to a daughter of a former exotic dancer. Linda Dunegan believes divine intervention played a hand in transforming the building that housed Fantasies on [...]
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Baby salmon are dying by the thousands in one California river, and an entire run of endangered salmon could be wiped out in another. Fishermen who make their living off adult salmon, once they enter the Pacific Ocean, are sounding the alarm as blistering heat waves and extended drought in the [...]
Although the pandemic disrupted family life across the country since taking hold in spring 2020, some parents are grateful for one consequence: They're now opting to homeschool their children, even as schools plan to resume in-person classes. The specific reasons vary widely. Some families who spoke with The Associated Press have children with special educational [...]
LOS ANGELES — Low mortgage rates and a severe shortage of previously occupied U.S. homes on the market have helped stoke demand for new homes this year, but supply chain problems and rising costs for building materials and labor have been a drag on the industry. Big homebuilders, such as Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Taylor Morrison Home [...]
When COVID put an abrupt halt to social gatherings, many homes were reconfigured to encompass school study areas and home offices. Now that pandemic restrictions are easing, there is a gentle art to opening your home again to guests who (like hosts) are out of practice and grappling with a somewhat changed social terrain. Hugs [...]
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — When classrooms in California reopen for the fall term, all 6.2 million public school students will have the option to eat school meals for free, regardless of their family's income. The undertaking, made possible by an unexpected budget surplus, will be the largest free student lunch program in the country. School [...]
So you want to travel on a budget. Who doesn't? Yet it's easy to get overwhelmed by all the cheap travel tips, hacks and strategies out there that promise unbelievable deals on airfare and hotels. In reality, there's only one important tactic for traveling cheaply: being flexible with your travel dates, destination and plans. It [...]
Americans are holding onto their vehicles longer than ever, with the average age of a car in 2020 rising to a record 12.1 years, according to data from IHS Markit. But if you own a car for long enough and something goes wrong mechanically, you're likely to see an amber check engine light somewhere in [...]